Medical Dictionary
chicken pox
noun
Medical Definition of CHICKEN POX
: an acute contagious disease especially of children that is marked by low-grade fever and formation of vesicles and that is caused by a herpesvirus of the genus Varicellovirus (species Human herpesvirus 3)—called also varicella; see shingles
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